First there was BREXIT, then the election of Donald Trump, and pundits were saying, the world is going hard right. Then the Dutch hyper-nationalist identity politician Geert Wilders was upset, going down in flames in national elections. Now votes are coming up in Germany and France with mainstream parties and politicians under sharp pressure. James Kirchick of Foreign Policy looks at those elections, and the role being played in them by millions of dollars in imported right-wing American money.

When a fired public employee becomes a whistleblower, reporters can check out the he said-they said charges by checking the public record. But what happens when an arm of a public university says it is a separate non-profit and everything it does can be kept off the books? Daniel Libit of nmfishbowl.com says, that’s when you have to sue them. He’s asked the University of New Mexico Foundation about selling naming rights for the school’s iconic basketball arena, and gotten no answers…yet.

The best wall between you and financial predators, says Jordan Goodman, America’s Money Answers Man, is the CFPB, the Consumers Financial Protection Bureau. In less than 6 years it has saved consumers $11 Billion. President Trump and Republicans in Congress want to tear it down. Who stopped the Wells Fargo Bank scams? Who’s busted mortgage flim-flams at Citimortgage and Nationstar Financial? And who stopped crooks preying on 9/11 first-responders and brain-damaged NFL veterans? The CPFB. Close it down?

What happens to immigrant children detained at the US-Mexico border? Their first stop is a large warehouse, subdivided by chain link fences into separate areas for boys and girls, men and women. Dr. Fernando Stein, President, American Academy of Pediatrics says the lights are on 24/7 and kids are absolutely silent. They’re likely to be there for days, and their next stop, while better, still feels like a jail, where their average stay is more than a month. Dr. Stein says simply, this is unhealthy.